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Gublok, these guys get to about 1.5 feet long. Don't consider keeping one until you've got an absolutely massive tank.

Also I'd knock your water temperature down a touch, 27.5 is pretty high. Try about 25 degrees.
 
Yeah well that sailfin plec they sold you is probably a gibbiceps, which although is peaceful and all, will grow to a 12-18" destroyer of plants and your aquascape, for your size tank you want a bristlenose.

Don't worry so much about lowering the tank's temp that much, just set the thermostat down and the temp will drop by itself unless your room is warm then it'll only go down to ambient which could be around 28-30c atm. You might also want to turn the flow down on your filter or deflect it off the back glass, gourami's come from still water and don't do well in a lot of flow hence why that one is hiding behind the filter.
 
Currently going through the nitrification process with a 10 litre nano. Obviously, it will just be used for plants and shrimps as it isn't the right size for anything else. Will start up the 46 gal next year I think.
 
Can anyone explain to me what the loaches in our tank are doing? :

They swim upright and sort of hover in the water at a specific depth for a few seconds, then dart back down to the bottom, rinse and repeat!

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If anyone has any guidelines / experiences with nano tanks, then I'd be glad to read anything they might wish to add. Has anyone kept small crabs in a nano?
 
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If anyone has any guidelines / experiences with nano tanks, then I'd be glad to read anything they might wish to add. Has anyone kept small crabs in a nano?
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How nano are we talking? I've got 3 freshwater 25l tanks (12" cubes) with various things in them. No idea on crabs, although I believe most of the popular ones need a reasonable amount of land area, except Thai micro crabs.

Edit - just spotted your previous post. 10l is pretty small but no reason you couldn't keep a few shrimp in there. Main issue with nanos is keeping them stable, but this isn't difficult if you've got plenty of plants. I'd do small frequent water changes of say 10% or so, rather than larger less frequent ones. No hassle on such a small tank. Also, if you're currently cycling with ammonia I'd stop that immediately and just plant it with a decent number of plants. Spend the time you would have wasted cycling to get your plants growing happily and they'll easily take care of the bioload of a few shrimp or crabs. Ammonia cycling makes zero sense in the context of a heavily planted tank.
 
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What sort of info are you after? If you're into a heavily planted one, then I'll keep plugging UKAPS as the place to check out, there's some outstanding talent on there.

Never kept crabs I'm afraid, so can't help on that one.
 
Thanks for both of your replies. Yeah, it's looking like crabs are a no go, so it'll probably just be shrimps. I'm a little confused though. I hold a very high regard for the crew on the site http://wetwebmedia.com, and was informed by them that a betta (or any fish for that matter) was not advisable - which I completely understand, yet the link given to me by one of the chaps there seems to have a few exceptions.

http://www.jbl.de/en/nano-aquarium-keeping-downloads/detail/how-to-booklet?id-category=3-Ratgeber


Edit : btw, thanks Makhaira, I've bookmarked your link. Looking at it now.
 
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arc@css said:
Thanks for both of your replies. Yeah, it's looking like crabs are a no go, so it'll probably just be shrimps. I'm a little confused though. I hold a very high regard for the crew on the site http://wetwebmedia.com, and was informed by them that a betta (or any fish for that matter) was not advisable - which I completely understand, yet the link given to me by one of the chaps there seems to have a few exceptions.

http://www.jbl.de/en/nano-aquarium-keeping-downloads/detail/how-to-booklet?id-category=3-Ratgeber
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Just had a look and at the start it defines nanos as anything up to 60 litres, in which case obviously those fish would be fine. Also anything produced by a nano aquarium manufacturer is unlikely to categorically state that you shouldn't keep fish in their tanks. Certainly D. margaritatus shouldn't be in anything less than as 60cm tank as the males are quite combative, but Boraras and smaller Betta species would be fine in something around 25 litres or more.

You could physically keep them in a 10 litre I suppose, but its not much of an existence, is it.

Just about the only fish i can think of that might be OK in 10 litres is Indostomus paradoxus (or crocodillus). I've got some and they spend 90% of their time lurking in tiny caves, rarely moving more than a few centimeters.
 
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